Floresville Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in Wilson County for over twenty years, and I can tell you Floresville gets hammered in a way folks from San Antonio just don’t understand. We sit right in that open stretch of prairie between the Hill Country and the Gulf, so when those spring supercells roll through—usually March through May—they don’t have any hills or tall buildings to break them up. The wind just screams across the flat farmland, and it’ll suddenly shift direction right over your neighborhood, twisting the shingles loose before the hail even starts. And that hail isn’t the little pea-sized stuff you see up north; we routinely get golf ball to baseball sized stones coming down at a steep angle, which means they hit your roof with way more force than a straight-down drop. I’ve pulled shingles off houses out here that looked like someone took a shotgun to them, and the worst part is the damage isn’t always obvious from the ground—it’s those hidden dings that compromise the mat and lead to leaks six months later.

The other thing people forget is that our storm season doesn’t end in the spring. We get a second nasty round in late summer and early fall when those tropical systems push up from the Gulf, and even if we’re not in the direct path, the outer bands can stall right over us and dump wind gusts of 60 to 70 miles per hour for hours on end. That’s when you see the real trouble—the wind lifts the edges of your shingles, and then the rain drives in underneath, loosening the adhesive strip. Once that seal is broken, the next good thunderstorm will peel them right off like a banana. Plus, with all the mesquite and live oaks we have around here, a strong gust can send a heavy branch crashing down, and that’s a whole different kind of repair. Honestly, if you’ve lived here more than a couple of years, your roof has already taken a beating—it’s just a matter of whether you’ve caught it before the water finds its way in.